

The 3 Q-ing Systems: What it Isn't and Is
The Reading Instruction Show by Dr. Andy Johnson
S23 · E26
Mar 29, 2025
16:18
Episode notes
1. It’s not a strategy to teach students.
2. It’s not a pedagogical strategy that teachers use.
3. It doesn’t exclude phonics instruction.
4. It doesn’t encourage children to use picture clues to figure out words.
5. It’s not an approach to teaching reading.
6. It’s not a method of “decoding” printed text.
7. It’s not a “staple of early reading instruction”.
8. It’s not whole language
9. It doesn’t exclude explicit and systematic instruction.
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